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🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula

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🧭 Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Barranc de la Penya Blanca


🕐 2 min read · Updated 1 Apr 2026 at 15:55

UNESCOUNESCO World Heritage Site

📋 Fast Facts
  • Upper Paleolithic and Neolithic rock paintings, 10,000–6,000 years old
  • Part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site encompassing over 700 sites across eastern Spain
  • Depicts hunting scenes, human figures, animals, rituals, and social structures
  • Pigments primarily ochres and hematite, preserved through millennia

Barranc de la Penya Blanca is a rock shelter site in eastern Spain containing prehistoric Levantine rock art ...

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